Jason Langridge's WebLog - MR Mobile! : Blogging

Thank you for your support

jasonlan — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:16:20 GMT

Mobile & Wireless Technology Blogs
IT Blog Awards

Wow – I won! I had a pleasant surprise yesterday when Rebecca emailed me to tell me my blog had won the Mobile & Wireless Technology Blog Awards in Computer Weekly!

Big congratulations to Tracy and Matt for their blog - Tracy and Matt's blog- Independent Technology & Mobile Device News and Reviews which came second!

Overall Microsoft did pretty well in the awards winning 4 of the 10 categories

Steve Clayton’s “Geek in Disguise” blog won the “Company Blogs” category
Mike Taulty’s “Bits and Bytes” blog won the “Programming and Technical Blogs” category
Ray Fleming’s “UK Schools” blog won the “Public Sector Blogs” category
My blog won the Mobile and Wireless Technology Blogs

I wanted to thank everyone for their support, encouragement and interaction! Whilst I write the blog – it’s the discussion and debate that takes place in the comments that inspires me!

System Center Mobile Device Manager Blog launched

jasonlan — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:48:09 GMT

Our System Center Mobile Device Manager product team have just launched a blog to provide updates and insight into System Center Mobile Device Manager so add it to your RSS feeds now - http://blogs.technet.com/scmdm/

Will you vote for me (Please)

jasonlan — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:21:25 GMT

Much to my (pleasant) surprise I’ve been shortlisted in the ComputerWeekly.com IT Blog awards.

The final stage is for people to cast their votes at the ComputerWeekly.Com site.

So if you do read my blog I’d really appreciate you taking a few moments to vote for me.

To do that just go to HERE and select my Blog from the Wireless and Mobile Blogs Category and hit Submit!

Windows Live Writer Technical Preview now available

jasonlan — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:16:45 GMT

Windows Live Writer is FANTASTIC!

I use Live Writer to maintain this blog and I've tried a huge number of blogging clients but Live Writer is simply the best I've ever used. Like Steve I wish there were a Mac client so my friends with Macs could also use it too :)

The new Technical Preview provides a number of new features:

Video and Image Publishing Enhancements

Upload videos to Soapbox
Image cropping and tilting
Additional border styles
Support for LightBox and other image previewing effects (like Slimbox, Smoothbox, and others)
Support for centering images

Editing Enhancements

Auto Linking
Smart quotes/typographic characters
Word count

UI Improvements

Revised main toolbar
Tabs for view switching
Improved category control with search/filtering

You can download the Technical Preview from HERE